All of our news and analysis on the retrocessional reinsurance marketplace.
Retrocession is effectively reinsurance for reinsurers, so a tertiary layer of risk transfer away from the original risk, if you consider primary, reinsurance and then retrocession.
As reinsurance is insurance for insurers, retrocessional, or retro, protection is reinsurance for reinsurers.
The retrocession reinsurance market has increasingly come to depend on the capital markets and insurance-linked securities (ILS).
As of mid-year 2022, global retrocession capacity has been estimated to be as high as $60bn, around $20bn of which is indemnity based and the rest in other formats.
The alternative capital markets and ILS funds, or investors, play a significant role in global retrocession, as too do instruments such as catastrophe bonds and industry-loss warranties (ILW).
German reinsurance giant Munich Re said that it is expecting its losses from the recent US winter storm and extreme freezing weather event to be in the mid hundreds of millions of Euros.
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Insurance and reinsurance industry catastrophe claims are likely running around 34% above the 10-year average for the year-to-date thanks to the significant contribution from US winter storms and freezing weather, according to analysts at Jefferies.
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The CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd., the stock exchange listed retrocession focused strategy managed by Markel CATCo and in run-off at this time, has now seen $271.3 million of capital returned to its investors since its run-off began.
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Insurance and reinsurance broker Miller, the newly independent and private equity funded broking group, has announced the launch of a Bermuda arm that will have a retrocession and ILS focus, as well as the hire of retro broking specialist Charlie Simpson from Aon to lead the unit.
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Bermuda headquartered ILS fund and investment manager ILS Capital Management, has said that it expects that industry losses suffered from the recent winter storms and Arctic blast in the United States will drive renewal rates higher at the mid-year and also further into 2022.
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The intensity of extreme cold events such as the recent US winter storms and Arctic deep freeze may become more volatile as the climate changes, Aon has warned, saying that the February loss event will be a record.
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France-headquartered global reinsurance firm SCOR has put in place a sidecar-like, quota share retrocession vehicle named Mangrove Insurance PCC Limited through which it transfers some of its longevity risk to third-party investors.
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The size of the estimated winter storm insurance and reinsurance market loss from February’s severe Arctic freeze and the issues suffered by energy organisation the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) has raised speculation over the chances of subrogation becoming a possibility for carriers.
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German reinsurance giant Hannover Re benefited from its retrocessional protections throughout 2020, potentially ceding almost one-third of natural catastrophe losses and 24% of its losses from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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As once motor-focused specialist insurer ERS continues its expansion and diversification into a multi-line insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) operation, the company has raised $350 million of capital from private equity investors.
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